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The Delta government says it has established and strengthened health facilities in its 25 Local Government Areas to ensure that the target of permanent eradication of polio disease in the state is attained. The measure, according to Dr Winful Gbub...
Ewulu people in Aniocha South Local Government Area of Delta have lamented lack of access road to the community, saying they have been cut off from the state. A community leader and the Okita of Ewulu, Chief Eugene Nnadei, told the News Agency of Niger...
Locomotive drivers with the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) , can become Railway District Managers (RDM), provided they have all it takes, says its Director of Operations, Mr Niyi Alli. Alli said on Saturday in Lagos that locomotive drivers were as ...
The Director-General, Cross River Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Dr Irene Aniyom, has stressed the importance of early sex education to children by parents. Aniyom told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ugep, Yakur Local Government Area of the s...
The National Directorate of Employment (NDE) in Akwa-Ibom says it has trained about 2,000 Akwa-Ibom youths in various marketable skills since the beginning of the year. The State Coordinator of the programme, Mrs Patience Osunkwo, disclosed this i...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has concluded plans to embark on enlightenment campaign against the use of defective vehicles in Katsina State. The state's FRSC Sector Commander, Alhaji Habu Dauda, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) has concluded arrangements toimplement a non-sanction week throughout the country, its Irruekpen Unit Commander in Edo, Mr Udeme Eshiet, said. He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that the we...
President Goodluck Jonathan will on Monday, launch the second edition of the Youth Enterprise with Innovation (YOUWIN!), a Federal Ministry of Finance innovative business plan competition for talented youth`entrepreneurs. A statement issued by Mr ...
Gov. Liyel Imoke of Cross River in Calabar on Saturday stressed the need for effective policing of the country to safe-guard the lives and property of the people. Imoke told newsmen that the call for State Police was because of ineffective policing of ...
The Adamawa State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), says it has set up 23 camps for people displaced by the flood from Lagdo Dam in neighbouring country, Cameroon. The Executive Secretary of the agency, Mr Shadrack Daniel, who made this ...
The Lamido of Adamawa, Alhaji Muhammdu Aliyu Mustafa, on Saturday donated relief materials to some flood victims in the state. Presenting the materials to the victims at the Damare refugee camp in Girei Local Government area, Aliyu urged them to s...
Gov. Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers in Berlin on Saturday called on the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to take his government to court if it was convinced that it breached the law. Amaechi made the call in reaction to the one...
Alhaji Muktari Ibrahim has assumed duty in Calabar as the new Assistant Inspector General (AIG) in charge of the Zone 6 Command of the Nigeria Police. A statement released in Calabar and signed by the Zonal Police Public Relations Officer (ZPPRO)...
The Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) in Ibadan on Saturday advised drivers to apply skills when faced with potential accident situations to prevent the occurrences. Mr Godwin Ogagaoghene, the FRSC Sector-Commander for Oyo State, gave the adv...
Mixed reactions have continued to trail Thursday’s endorsement of President Goodluck Jonathan for a second term by some south-east political leaders with the Congress for Progressive Change[CPC] and its All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP...